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Out of the Sugar Factory
Aus der Zuckerfabrik
Dorothee Elmiger (born 1985)
Translated by Megan Ewing
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Out of the Sugar Factory
Two Lines Press · United States · 2022
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'My skills never end' reads the T-shirt of a worker collecting his wages. On a Caribbean beach, Switzerland's first lottery millionaire gazes out to sea. At night, goats crowd around the narrator's bed. Starting from a simple question, where sugar actually comes from, she follows money and desire across centuries and continents, sketching the lives of mystics, gamblers, the insatiable and colonialists, and recording dreams and cases of ecstasy and madness. A research journal and collage that leads to Haiti and into literary history, and shows how deeply colonialism is woven into European history.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 270 pages in the original
- First published
- 2020 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 35 when first published
- ISBN
9783446267503 (original)
9781949641400 (Two Lines Press, United States)
- More
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